The Other Side of the Library

The library was Lisa's favorite place on campus. She had described it to Gilly in detail, a huge limestone structure designed to look like a church with desks instead of pews and stained glass windows that depicted scholars, not saints. At universities, everyone agreed that knowledge was the only thing worth worshiping. And awe was why Gilly secretly liked real churches. Old ornate ones with gilded altars and cushioned kneelers for praying. It turned out that opposites like that were everywhere.